For Your Information Public Post-Secondary institutions in British-Columbia

(Information from https://www.bccat.ca/system/psec)

Colleges exist in every region of BC. They offer programs in trades/apprenticeship, vocational, career, technical, and academic studies (often called university transfer). They also offer developmental programs that prepare adult learners for post-secondary studies. Colleges offer a range of credentials, including certificates, diplomas, associate degrees, and applied undergraduate degrees (called Bachelor degrees). The 11 public colleges are:

• http://www.necvancouver.org/

•Camosun College http://camosun.ca/

•Coast Mountain College https://www.coastmountaincollege.ca/

• https://cnc.bc.ca/

•College of the Rockies http://www.cotr.bc.ca/

•Douglas College https://www.douglascollege.ca/

•Langara College https://langara.ca/

•North Island College http://www.nic.bc.ca/

•Northern Lights College https://www.nlc.bc.ca/

•Okanagan College https://www.okanagan.bc.ca/

•Selkirk College http://www.selkirk.bc.ca/

•Vancouver Community College https://www.vcc.ca/

Universities offer a wide array of undergraduate and graduate degrees. Some universities offer programs in developmental education, trades-vocational, career-technical, and academic studies for transfer in addition to degree programs from the associate through the master's level. Some focus more on baccalaureate and graduate degree programs to the doctoral level. Emily Carr University of Art and Design offers specialized programs in keeping with its provincial mandate. Also in keeping with their specific individual mandates, universities may undertake original research, applied research, and/or scholarly activity in a range of program and content areas. The public universities are:

• https://www.capilanou.ca/

•Emily Carr University of Art and Design https://www.ecuad.ca/

•Kwantlen Polytechnic University https://www.kpu.ca/

•Royal Roads University http://www.royalroads.ca/

•Simon Fraser University https://www.sfu.ca/

•Thompson Rivers University https://www.tru.ca/

•University of https://www.ubc.ca/

•University of the Fraser Valley https://www.ufv.ca/

•University of Northern British Columbia https://www.unbc.ca/ •University of Victoria https://www.uvic.ca/

•Vancouver Island University https://www.viu.ca/

Institutes offer specialized programs and have a provincial mandate. Each of the three provincial institutes is unique in terms of the programs it offers, with one focusing on trades and technology, one on public safety, and the other on Aboriginal education. Institutes offer a range of credentials, including certificates, diplomas, associate degrees, and applied bachelor degrees. Some offer applied Masters degrees. The three provincial institutes are:

•British Columbia Institute of Technology https://www.bcit.ca/

•Justice Institute of British Columbia http://www.jibc.ca/

•Nicola Valley Institute of Technology https://www.nvit.ca/